Maternity category: 298 books

"The volume features extensive references throughout to document evidence-based practices...For practitioners of complementary therapies this is a useful resource...that provide[s] more in-depth understanding of each condition and therapy. Summing up: recommended."   --Choice           "Carolyn...

The second edition of this authoritative women’s health text and reference for graduate nursing students is replete with the vital information needed to help nurse practitioners provide optimal health to women of all ages. Edited by a team of highly distinguished scholars and educators, this revised...

"This is an extraordinarily down-to-earth and useful guide for both novice clinicians and experienced clinicians who are presented with challenging patient situations. … a must-have book for novice clinicians as they struggle to make it through their first solo gynecologic examination and move on...

Just as children are not little adults, the discipline of paediatric surgery is not equivalent to surgery for adults. Differences in anatomy, diseases affecting children and the appropriate therapies make the surgical care of children confusing and tense. Even within paediatric care, the extensive...

This book is a compact question-based review of* *the most critical topics an obstetrician will come across in practice. Each chapter includes 10-30 multiple-choice questions designed to test the readers understanding surrounding one obstetric topic. Based on all 45 obstetric based practice bulletins...

The new edition of this ground-breaking text is an essential resource for the management of drugs during pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period. Fully updated in line with current midwifery practice, it includes new chapters on Disorders of the Immune System and Recreational Drugs, and expanded coverage of pain relief.

This book analyses parental anxieties about their children’s healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety. It examines the broader social, cultural and historical contexts of parental anxiety by analysing a series of socio-economic changes...

Confidently deliver safe, accurate intrapartum care with the expert guidance of Intrapartum Management Modules, 5e. This essential, fully updated edition offers easy-to-follow directions on the full range of intrapartum skills, from admission assessment of the laboring woman and fetus to delivery...

Provide the best care possible with expert insight and clinically relevant coverage of the physiologic changes that occur throughout all major periods of the perinatal experience — prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal. Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Physiology: A Clinical Perspective,...

Découvrez enfin tous nos conseils et nos astuces pour calmer les pleurs de votre nourrisson.Si l’arrivée d’un enfant fait partie des plus beaux moments de la vie, les premiers mois du nouveau-né peuvent s’avérer assez complexes à gérer pour les jeunes parents. Après les joies de la naissance...

Découvrez tous nos conseils et astuces pour vivre sereinement une naissance prématurée ! Devenir parent se prépare : vous avez 9 mois devant vous pour anticiper cette naissance et la vivre au mieux. Pourtant, il arrive que votre enfant s'impatiente et arrive plus tôt que prévu, ce qui...

This book addresses new avenues in child abuse prevention research that will expand our capacity to protect children. These new avenues result from the emergence of new research methods made possible through technologic advances, an understanding of the benefits of cross-disciplinary research and...

THIS IS FOR MILK FED BABIES (bottle or natural).  WARNING:  SHOOTING BABY #2 LIKELY! This is a natural, safe, nutritional, health based solution, of how I fixed my baby daughter's constipation. There is 2 parts to fixing the problem.  Part one is digesting the milk (we use acidophilus...

Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame. We are told not to discuss it in public, that tampons and sanitary pads should be hidden away, the blood rendered invisible. In many parts of the world, poverty, culture and religion collide causing...